My picture of Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon in Magazine Heelal

My image of Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is published in Magazine Heelal. This is my 35th contribution to this Astronomical magazine. 

 

Happy New Year 2026

 Happy Astronomical New Year 2026 with lots of clear skies.

My Astronomical & Blog statistics

My astronomical and blog statistics.

- Same blogposts as the last two years

- Increase visits and now above 240.000 visits

- My project "Herschel 400" is not progressing

- A total of 16 observation nights, which much better then last year and comparable with 2023. The focus is on a couple of objects and long exposure images made over more days; eg. Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon and Bernard's Loop.

Bernard's Loop Sh2-276

After a first session on X-mas day and a failed second session, a third session was completed on December 28.

This third session was a combination of H-alpha and Optolong L-Pro; all of them 300s exposure time.

Using APP, all images are stacked, resulting in a total integration time of 4hours 25minutes.

Bernard's Loop and Sh2-264, Lambda Orionis Ring or Angelfish Nebula is good visible. I'm still doubting on the quality of the images. Hopefully I can add one more session to get up to 6h total integration time. 

Sun on December 28

The Sun on December 28, 2025. Interesting is the Magnesium Mg I B2 line with a small prominence.

Setting: Sol'Ex by James R, with 2nd Gen slit and Herschel Wedge

Software: SharpCap, Inti, JSol'Ex, CS4, DeNoise AI

Tilt < 0,2° Sx/Sy 1,1

 

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Bernard's Loop Sh2-276

Bernard's Loop is identified as Sh2-276. Sh2 is the abrevation of Sharpless, a catalog of 313 H II regions (emission nebulae) published in 1959 by US astronomer Stewart Sharpless. Sh2 is referred to the second and final catalog. Number 276 refers to a H II object, in this case Bernard's Loop.
The image below shows Sh2-276 and Sh2-264, Lambda Orionis Ring or Angelfish Nebula.

Setting: 

Nikkor 24-200mm with ASI2600MC and H-Alpha filter

Exposure: 29x120, 19x180, 4x300 or  total integration time of 2h15min

Software: SharpCap, APP, DeNoise AI, CS4